Ms Mary Gurrie:

Yes, as we said in our opening statement, only a little over half of our surface water bodies are meeting the standard, which is to achieve good or better water quality in all water bodies by 2027. In fact, in our submission on the draft river basin management plan, we welcomed the call for higher ambition and called for that to be clearly articulated in the final plan. We did say that the objectives would not be met with the measures in the current plan. We know there are decades of investment needed on our wastewater systems - several more cycles certainly. Agriculture is the most widespread significant pressure and a lot of work needs to happen on that. We need a regime for the hydromorphological pressures. There is a lot of work happening, but there is a way to go on delivering the water quality improvements still. We do have the science and evidence is improving all the time. Knowing what the problem is and being able to identify the measures needed has advanced a lot in recent years. We know what needs to be done; it is a question of trying to get it done.